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Author : Jean-Michel Othoniel
Release : 2019
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Book Synopsis L'herbier merveilleux : notes sur le sens caché des fleurs du Louvre by : Jean-Michel Othoniel
Download or read book L'herbier merveilleux : notes sur le sens caché des fleurs du Louvre written by Jean-Michel Othoniel. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Michel Othoniel
Release : 2019-05
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Herbier merveilleux du Louvre by : Jean-Michel Othoniel
Download or read book Herbier merveilleux du Louvre written by Jean-Michel Othoniel. This book was released on 2019-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to The Secret Language of Flowers: Notes on the Hidden Meanings of Flowers in Art . To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Louvre pyramid, Jean-Michel Othoniel was invited to create a work relating the importance of flowers in the Museum's eight art departments. The artist photographed the floral wealth concealed in the masterpieces of the Museum's painting, drawing, sculpture, embroidery and enamel collections. Using this, Othoniel composes his own original herbarium, accompanied with notes on the secret language of flowers and their symbolism in the history of art. Among the seventy details of flowers, you will find the thistle in Dürer's selfportrait, the poppy in the Paros funerary stele, the apple sitting on a stool in The Lock by Fragonard, or the peony attached to the unfastened blouse of the young woman in Greuze's Broken Pitcher. The work also introduces us to lesser-known details in works, offering a magnificent treasure hunt for visitors of the museum. Amid this vast prairie spangled with symbolic flowers, the artist asks this question: If there could be only one, which would be the Louvre's flower? A question to which the artist himself offers his own response.
Author : Gabriel Surenne
Release : 1856
Genre : Dictionaries (English-French).
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Book Synopsis Dictionary of the French and English Languages by : Gabriel Surenne
Download or read book Dictionary of the French and English Languages written by Gabriel Surenne. This book was released on 1856. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Montague Summers
Release : 1928
Genre : Vampires
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Book Synopsis The Vampire by : Montague Summers
Download or read book The Vampire written by Montague Summers. This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Lepetit
Release : 2014-04-24
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism by : Patrick Lepetit
Download or read book The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism written by Patrick Lepetit. This book was released on 2014-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works • Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers • Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, accepting instead the titles of magician, alchemist, or--in the case of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo--witch. Their paintings, poems, and other works were created to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers. They used creative expression as the vehicle to attain what André Breton called the “supreme point,” the point at which all opposites cease to be perceived as contradictions. This supreme point is found at the heart of all esoteric doctrines, including the Great Work of alchemy, and enables communication with higher states of being. Drawing on an extensive range of writings by the surrealists and those in their circle of influence, Patrick Lepetit shows how the surrealists employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, and alchemy not simply as reference points but as significant elements of their ongoing investigations into the fundamental nature of consciousness. He provides many specific examples of esoteric influence among the surrealists, such as how Picasso’s famous Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers, how painter Victor Brauner drew from his father’s spiritualist vocation as well as the Kabbalah and tarot, and how doctor and surrealist author Pierre Mabille was a Freemason focused on finding initiatory paths where “it is possible to feel a new system connecting man with the universe.” Lepetit casts new light on the connection between key figures of the movement and the circle of adepts gathered around Fulcanelli. He also explores the relationship between surrealists and Freemasonry, Martinists, and the Elect Cohen as well as the Grail mythos and the Arthurian brotherhood.
